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My Personal Hero: Caleb Scharf on Michael Storrie-Lombardi
Being a scientist can be like willingly entering into a Roman gladiatorial contest. The hours are long, there’s a rank smell of indentured servitude, and at any minute your colleagues may attempt to eviscerate you for the pleasure of the crowds.A lot of the time we can look beyond these challenges because we have an […] -
Ingenious: Caleb Scharf
How our view of the universe, and ourselves, is changing. -
Here to Save the Day!
Asteroid defense gets serious. -
Should We Really Be Messing with Asteroid Orbits?
With one small error or manipulation, cosmic interference would spell disaster. -
We Might Already Speak the Same Language As ET
Alien communication could utilize quantum physics, so SETI needs a new way to listen. -
A Mirror of Our Best Selves
An astrobiologist annotates what we are seeing in this James Webb Space Telescope image. -
We Better Think Twice About What We Say to ET
Extraterrestrials could take our intergalactic message in entirely the wrong way. -
The Power of Narrative
Global solutions, like the greening of the world’s financial system, begin with the right story. -
The Worrisome Rise of NFTs
An astrobiologist says non-fungible tokens do not bode well for our species’s future. -
Who Said Science and Art Were Two Cultures?
Revisiting C.P. Snow’s infamous thesis. -
Looking for Life on Mars
An astrobiologist and a director on the joys and challenges of filming space science. -
What Is Life?
An astrobiologist finds the heart of his work in a new novel by Richard Powers.
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The Universe Has Already Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make
Black holes are cosmic dimmers.
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A Wrinkle in Nature Could Lead to Alien Life
There may be more than one way to tune a universe for life.
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The Alien-Haunted World
Are space scientists too conservative and close-minded about the possibility that ET exists?
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We Never Know Exactly Where We’re Going in Outer Space
Adventures in space travel remind us how imprecisely we measure reality. -
The App That Offers Cosmic Awe
Like any good version of Powers of Ten, use this app and you can find yourself getting that feeling of cosmic awe—it might take a little attention, but that’s always going to be true.Photograph by RollingCamera / Shutterstock One of the weirdest things about our human experience of the world is how remarkably narrow it […] -
Take Our Virtual Trip to Mars
See where NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will go and what it may find. -
The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make
Black holes are cosmic dimmers. -
How Life Could Continue to Evolve
On the origin of an interstellar species.